ALL OF 2022, RANKED

2022 was a good year and I spent way more than I needed to on games - most of which were mid! But there were still a lot of highlights and fun laughs over vc. My tastes didn't evolve much, but I felt my linguistics and understanding of old favorites maturing.

This is EVERYTHING ranked - plus blurbs for the Top 50.

(Set to 'List' view for best reading of the blurbs, or 'Grid' for best display of overall ranks.)

Excluded replays:
-Dynamite Headdy -Vectorman 1/2 -Star Allies -Time Crisis 3 -Sonic CD -Ninja Gaiden -Knuckles in Sonic 2 -Barney's Hide & Seek Game -Darius MD [Extra] -GG Aleste -Jurassic Park (Arcade) -Warlords -Sonic & Knuckles -Sonic Classic Heroes -Shinobi III

Excluded new plays:
-Super Cream 64 -Radar Mission -Top Pro Golf 2 -Answer These 10 Questions And I'll Tell You What Kind of Lover You Are -Death Crimson -Two Girls Punch Me Repeatedly -Prehistoric Isle 2 -Boxy & Prisma -New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta -New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki

Low-poly golf got me acting strange. You lose a bit of your senses when you see a 3-D shoreline crashing against the waves on a 1988 processor. There's better golf games mechanically but I think T&E Soft's classics are the best for getting a 'clean' golf experience: Just enough read tools to have full control over your decisions, but not so many that you're controlling the world itself. A good golf game reminds you that you're a participant in a larger plane, and the forces of wind and luck will have the final say in your fate.

Also a proxy for Harukanaru Augusta and Waialae no Kiseki: Essentially the same game across different courses.
Aw jeez rick, oh no, augh, i ended up in golf hell rick, they put the green on a steep mountain rick, awww, thats pretty bad y'know cause like, if you hit the ball too far it falls all the way to the bottom, and then you have to start over again rick, auuugh, that's pretty fucked up isn't it rick, jesus christ

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